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Predestined Fate of Oedipus
In ancient Greek society they believed that ones life is predestined and
that ones fate is sealed. What is meant to occur will happen no matter what that
person does. In "Oedipus Rex" Oedipus' fate is doomed from his birth because of
the actions of his ancestors. Unlike Oedipus most people today don't b ....
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.... that they outsmarted the gods and
avoided their horrible fate, but it will catch up with them soon enough. They
can't change their fate, there is no way to avoid what the gods already decided
will happen. No matter what Iocaste and Laios tried to do to avoid their fate
the gods would do something to make sure that it didn't change their final fate.
Many of us today would argue that this is very unfair. Oedipus didn't do
anything to deserve this type of punishment however he will pay for the crime of
his ancestors. And there is nothing that he can do to prevent this from
hap ....
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